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 * LIMES Core Library - LIMES – Link Discovery Framework for Metric Spaces.
 * Copyright © 2011 Data Science Group (DICE) (ngonga@uni-paderborn.de)
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package org.aksw.limes.core.ml.algorithm.dragon.Pruning;

import org.aksw.limes.core.ml.algorithm.dragon.DecisionTree;

public abstract class PruningFunctionDTL {

    /**
     * Decides if all the child nodes or one of them have to be pruned
     * The nodes have to have the appropriate mappings in the classifiers
     * The child nodes of this node are leaves
     * @param node
     * @return node
     */
    public abstract DecisionTree pruneChildNodesIfNecessary(DecisionTree node);
}
